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Monday, July 1, 2013

Mystery Monday: A Wrinkle in the Search for Mary Ann

Mystery Monday is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers
encouraging bloggers to share mystery ancestors or mystery records – anything
which is currently unsolved. With any
luck fellow genealogy bloggers will lend their eyes to what has been found so
far and possibly help solve the mystery.

Last week I thought I was wrapping up my “Searching for
Mary Ann” series until I could gather some wills and deeds for the siblings of
John Ermentraudt. Then I noticed an
interesting name in the chapter called “Miscellaneous” in the Armentrout Family History by Russell S.
Armentrout.

The Miscellaneous chapter contains family lines that have
not been attached to any of the seven known sons and daughter of Anna
Elizabeth Hain Ermantraudt, the family that arrived in Pennsylvania in 1739 and
subsequently helped settle the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the 1750s.

That interesting name is also that ever-problematic
JOHN. Nevertheless, I have hope. Here’s why: Even though his birth and death dates are unknown, there
is a definite marriage date of May 6, 1791 to Elizabeth Lingle in Rockingham
County.

And there are children!

The first is Maria, born May 25, 1795. Maria? Mary? It’s possible, right? The date is a question, but then in very old
records dates are typically iffy. My
records indicate MY Mary Ann was born anywhere from 1795 to 1805.

Other children:

Elizabeth born August 8, 1798

Linda born April 18, 1805

John born February 16, 1816

What is more interesting is that all these children were
baptized at the Peaked Mountain Church like so many of the other Armentrouts as
well as the children of Mary Ann and Fielding Jollett.

Adding more interest upon interest are the names of the
sponsors of the Armentrout children – names like Schneider, Geiger, and
Augustine Ermentraudt.

I previously announced my gut feeling that Augustine
Ermentraudt could be my Rosetta Stone. Schneider and Geiger/Kyger are also
names that I identified as holding strong possibilities. Could MY John Ermentraudt have been right
here under our genealogical nose all along?
Why did no one pick up on it?

I’m trying not to jump up and down in ecstasy – don’t
want to jinx myself. But now I have
another way to think about this mystery.

Oh Kathy, yes, indeed. I got the email. I did a quick look and don't see any signs of a connection, but I feel confident if I can take my Robert back a little further there might be something. So many ancestors -- so little time. But I love the possibility that your file might open a new little world for me.

That would be awesome! I haven't researched this line much myself, but let me know if I can look up anything else from what I have. You are so right about so many ancestors, so little time! We could stay at this 24/7 and still never finish. But you have done and are doing so much. I am impressed.

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My name is Wendy. About twenty years ago, I helped my mother research the Jolletts. Since retiring from teaching, I have expanded my research which I share here. When I’m not looking for my own family, I index for FamilySearch and the Greene County Historical Society.
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